The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.